Hello 2012/11/8 Tianyin Xu <tixu@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, Pavel, Bruce, > > Thanks for the explanation! > > I have another question regarding the regress test suite. > > What does the test result mean to the users/administrators? Are they the > basic functions that have to be supported by PG server? Or, they are just > some benchmarks (failure is ok?) no, there must not be failure!- it is not benchmark > > Under certain configuration, I ran the test suite and got several failure > (see the report below). What does it mean to me? The test results show that > "regex", "create_index", "inherit", etc, failed (even "select" failed). But > I still don't know whether these are severe problems to my PG server. probably you disable some important internal functionality - this usually means critical problem, because some documented feature is broken look to diff file src/test/regress/regression.diffs - and there you can see, what doesn't work Regards Pavel Stehule > > (p.s., in the default configuration, all the test suites are passed.) > > Best, > Tianyin > > =============================================== > > test tablespace ... ok > test boolean ... ok > test char ... ok > test name ... ok > test varchar ... ok > test text ... ok > test int2 ... ok > test int4 ... ok > test int8 ... ok > test oid ... ok > test float4 ... ok > test float8 ... ok > test bit ... ok > test numeric ... ok > test txid ... ok > test uuid ... ok > test enum ... ok > test money ... ok > test rangetypes ... ok > test strings ... ok > test numerology ... ok > test point ... ok > test lseg ... ok > test box ... ok > test path ... ok > test polygon ... ok > test circle ... ok > test date ... ok > test time ... ok > test timetz ... ok > test timestamp ... ok > test timestamptz ... ok > test interval ... ok > test abstime ... ok > test reltime ... ok > test tinterval ... ok > test inet ... ok > test macaddr ... ok > test tstypes ... ok > test comments ... ok > test geometry ... ok > test horology ... ok > test regex ... FAILED > test oidjoins ... ok > test type_sanity ... ok > test opr_sanity ... ok > test insert ... ok > test create_function_1 ... ok > test create_type ... ok > test create_table ... ok > test create_function_2 ... ok > test create_function_3 ... ok > test copy ... ok > test copyselect ... ok > test create_misc ... ok > test create_operator ... ok > test create_index ... FAILED > test create_view ... ok > test create_aggregate ... ok > test create_cast ... ok > test constraints ... ok > test triggers ... ok > test inherit ... FAILED > test create_table_like ... ok > test typed_table ... ok > test vacuum ... ok > test drop_if_exists ... ok > test sanity_check ... ok > test errors ... ok > test select ... FAILED > test select_into ... ok > test select_distinct ... ok > test select_distinct_on ... ok > test select_implicit ... ok > test select_having ... ok > test subselect ... ok > test union ... ok > test case ... ok > test join ... FAILED > test aggregates ... FAILED > test transactions ... ok > test random ... ok > test portals ... ok > test arrays ... FAILED > test btree_index ... ok > test hash_index ... ok > test update ... ok > test delete ... ok > test namespace ... ok > test prepared_xacts ... ok > test privileges ... ok > test security_label ... ok > test collate ... ok > test misc ... ok > test rules ... ok > test select_views ... ok > test portals_p2 ... ok > test foreign_key ... ok > test cluster ... ok > test dependency ... ok > test guc ... ok > test bitmapops ... ok > test combocid ... ok > test tsearch ... ok > test tsdicts ... ok > test foreign_data ... ok > test window ... ok > test xmlmap ... ok > test functional_deps ... ok > test advisory_lock ... ok > test json ... ok > test plancache ... ok > test limit ... ok > test plpgsql ... ok > test copy2 ... ok > test temp ... ok > test domain ... ok > test rangefuncs ... ok > test prepare ... ok > test without_oid ... ok > test conversion ... ok > test truncate ... ok > test alter_table ... FAILED > test sequence ... ok > test polymorphism ... ok > test rowtypes ... ok > test returning ... ok > test largeobject ... ok > test with ... ok > test xml ... ok > test stats ... FAILED > > ======================== > 9 of 131 tests failed. > ======================== > > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> 2012/11/7 Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 09:24:19AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote: >> >> 2012/11/6 Tianyin Xu <tixu@xxxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> > Thanks, Pavel! >> >> > >> >> > I see. So the regress test cases are the complete functional testing? >> >> > Am I >> >> > right? >> >> >> >> yes >> > >> > Those tests are hardly "complete", as in testing every possible input >> > and output. >> >> sure - but almost all implemented important functionality is covered >> >> Pavel >> >> > >> > -- >> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> http://momjian.us >> > EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com >> > >> > + It's impossible for everything to be true. + > > > > > -- > Tianyin XU, > http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
